In 1860, the Brussels-based Société royale de Flore celebrated its 200th anniversary. On this occasion, the society had this elegant medal engraved by Leopold Wiener. This depiction of Flora became a standard medal for this society and later for the Société Royale Linnéenne because it is regularly found for all kinds of different occasions. Each time, the reverse is different while the obverse sometimes bears a caption as, for example, for the large gold medal awarded by the Société Royale Linnéenne during the Floralies of the World Fair in Ghent in 1913.
| Artist |
Leopold Wiener
RKD
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| Title | Medal of the Royal Floral Society of Brussels |
| Date | 1860 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) at the front, at the bottom right of the border: L. WIENER |
| on the reverse: SOCIÉTÉ ROYALE / DE / FLORE / DE / BRUXELLES / FONDÉE EN / 1660 ; | |
| Collection | medals AAT |
| Object type |
commemorative medals
AAT
membership medal |
| Inventory number | 1921-DV |
| Acquisition credit |
transfer
Cabinet Numismatique de la Ville de Gand Ghent 1921 |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1921-DV |
| IIIF Manifest |
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8341/manifest.json
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8342/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300055865 Symbolism (artistic concept) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25G41
flowers
Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31D120 Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 48A98333 bunch of flowers ~ ornament Iconclass 48A98333(+0) bunch of flowers ~ ornament (+ variant) Iconclass 92B11221 'Cornucopia', Horn of Plenty Iconclass 96A23 (story of) Flora Iconclass |
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